Chicken yard drama! Halp!

[aart]

Because we don't want her to be lonely, we have ordered some silkie eggs for her to go broody on.

Is she broody now?

 

[GoatDragonFarms]

Not yet. We have moved her into our "hospital" box with wooden eggs along with food and water. We don't have a bantam sized coop and run area for her yet. We are attempting to encourage her to go broody on the wooden eggs. Once the new silkie eggs arrive, we'll take the wooden ones out.

 

[Folly's place]

If she's not actually broody when the eggs arrive, you need access to an incubator as a backup plan. It needs to be up and running for at least a couple of days, or more, to get it adjusted, before eggs are added.
How about getting Silkie chicks instead?
Remember, either way, you will have MORE COCKERELS! Have a plan for them!
Mary

 

[GoatDragonFarms]

Thank you! We have a pair of incubators so we are good to go. If we get any more cockerels, they is getting sold. We're going to be lucky if we can keep the two wyandotte roos we have much less a third.